The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident reports:

Jenson’s Wymberly clubhouse burglarized

The manager of a senior living community in Martinez said early Thursday that someone kicked in the door to the community center overnight.

The manager of Jenson’s Wymberly said he arrived at work at about 6:30 p.m. and found the back door of the building unlocked. Walking through the building, he found a vase broken in the hallway. He thought it was broken accidentally and picked part of it up.

Columbia County officials say that a $3.7 million federal grant announced last week is just the downpayment on total state and federal funds that could cover most of what the county spent on ice storm cleanup.

U.S. 12th District Rep. John Barrow announced on Friday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was sending $3.7 million to Columbia County to pay for the cleanup and damages caused by an ice storm that paralyzed areas of Georgia in mid-February.

An Evans man was shot in the leg early Monday after four people tried to rob him outside his apartment.

Jamal Antwan Fielding, 25, was sitting on a bench behind the clubhouse at Westwood Club Apartments on Washington Road at about midnight when four people – two men and two women – approached brandishing a black automatic pistol and pointed it at Fielding, he said. They demanded cash and jewelry, according to Columbia County sheriff’s Capt. Steve Morris.

When he refused, one of the men shot Fielding in the thigh. The group ran away without taking anything, Morris said.

Even though Chrissy Rudder is married and has two children, she still finds time to be the number one volunteer at Columbia County Animal Services. Linda Glasscock, manager of the facility, praises Rudder’s volunteerism.

“If we didn’t have Chrissy, there are some days I don’t know how we would manage,” said Glasscock. “She comes up and plays with the dogs and she even helps clean, if needed. If we need animals transported to the vet, she transports them for us.”

A longtime area automotive business recently expanded farther into Columbia County.

Butler Automotive opened its fourth location on May 1 at 4726 Washington Road, near Blanchard Road in Evans.

“It just seemed like the natural direction to head into,” Butler Automotive co-owner Matt Rychly said. “We’ve got a lot of customers who live in Evans. We wanted to reach out and serve them, our existing customers. There’s so much growth out there. We wanted to do what we can to be a part of that growth in Evans.”

An Evans man was shot in the leg early Monday after four people tried to rob him outside his apartment.

Jamal Antwan Fielding, 25, was sitting on a bench behind the clubhouse at Westwood Club Apartments on Washington Road at about midnight when he said four people – two men and two women – approached him demanding cash and jewelry, according to Columbia County sheriff’s Capt. Steve Morris.

When he refused, one of the men shot Fielding in the thigh. The four people then ran away without stealing anything, Morris said.